Archive for March, 2010
“Talk to the Hand” Is Dead.
Thanks to this man.
Ladies and gentlemen, please raise your half-baked axioms and Golden Chanterelle frittatas for a toast. A toast to Mr. Grigory Perelman of St. Petersburg, Russia, THE MAN who found the solution to Henri Poincaré’s theorem known as “Poincaré’s Conjecture”, THE MYTH who quit researching as a member of the international mathematics community in disgust four years ago, is jobless, allegedly owns a cockroach-ridden flat but lives with his mother and sister and has refused the Clay Mathematics Institute’s $1,000,000 prize for his findings, and, THE LEGEND who refused a journalist’s mobile phone request for a statement by declaring:
“You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms.”
[POM] “Something In the Way She Moves…
Hasta la Vista (Well, Until March 22nd)…
I will be in Argentina for a spell, but look forward to collecting as many photos of oddities for our collective mocking as possible.